INTENSIVE CARE

Day 1: 17 July, 2017 Monday

10:00 – 12:00 Intensive Care: Leadership, Performance Improvement and Teamwork as the Roadmap to Achieving Excellent Outcomes in the CICU
10:00 – 10:20 Safety Culture in the CICU
10:20 – 10:40 Weekly performance rounds – managing threat and error after cardiac surgery
10:40 - 11:00 Leadership & Creating high reliability teams in the CICU
11:00 – 11:20 Managing the "special” clinician
11:20 – 11:40 Maintaining team resilience and avoiding team burnout
11:40 – 12:00 Panel Discussion

Day 2: 18 July, 2017 Tuesday

10:00 – 12:00 Intensive Care: Resource-poor but problem rich…challenges of Cardiac Intensive Care in developing countries
10:00 – 10:20 Nosocomial Infections in the CICU
10:20 - 10:40 Implication and impact of non-fatal injuries – expectations and practical constraints
10:40 – 11:00 Late presentation of d-TGA
11:00 – 11:20 Malnourished and small patients..an everyday problem
11:20 – 11:40 Undertrained and overworked – can we or should we fast track cardiac intensivists in low-income countries?
11:40 – 12:00 Panel Discussion
13:30 – 15:30 Intensive Care: The Kidney and Critical Cardiac Disease
13:30 – 13:50 AKI After CPB: Why Do We Care, How Do We Find It, and What Are We Going to Do About It?
13:50 – 14:10 Fluid Overload in Critically Ill Patients – It’s Not Just Cosmetic
14:10 – 14:30 Interventions to Prevent AKI – Is there hope?
14:30 – 14:50 Renal Replacement in the CICU
14:50 – 15:10 Long-term Outcomes of Pediatric AKI: Silent but Deadly?
15:10 – 15:30 Panel Discussion

Day 3: 19 July, 2017 Wednesday

10:00 – 12:00 Intensive Care: Modulating and Redistributing blood flow in CHD
10:00 -10:20 Pharmaceutical vasodilation and vasoconstriction of the systemic and pulmonary circulation
10:20 -10:40 Positive and negative pressure ventilation
10:40 – 11:00 Inspired gases – O2, CO2, N2 and iNO
11:00 – 11:20 Impact of acid-base balance
11:20 – 11:40 Can we monitor our interventions in a meaningful way?
11:40 – 12:00 Panel Discussion
13:30 – 15:30 Intensive Care: Wellbeing and Ethical Dilemmas Cardiac Intensive Care
13:30 – 13:50 Do we really have nothing more to offer and who decides?
13:50 – 14:10 Withdrawal of life support in the era of mechanical circulatory support?
14:10 – 14:30 Recognizing and treating secondary victims after team errors
14:30 – 14:50 Caring for the team after a death in the CICU
14:50 – 15:10 Everyday I have to make decisions based on limited resources
15:10 – 15:30 Panel Discussion

Day 4: 20 July, 2017 Thursday

10:00 – 12:00 Intensive Care: The Future of Research and Innovation in Cardiac ICU
10:00 – 10:20 Acuity adaptable care in the CICU
10:20 – 10:40 Re-structuring the education of the next generation of cardiac intensivists
10:40 – 11:00 Doing more and better for less: Mission impossible?
11:00 – 11:20 Can we make rounds more efficient and effective?
11:20 – 11:40 Clinical Trials: What’s New? What’s Next? Do We Care?
11:40 – 12:00 Panel Discussion
13:30 – 15:30 Intensive Care: Optimizing Nutrition in the CICU
13:30 – 14:30

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14:30 – 14:50 How can we better understand caloric needs in the critically ill cardiac patient
14:50 – 15:10 Variability in perioperative feeding – who, when and how?
15:10 – 15:30 Nutritional status and outcomes in patients with CHD